Predestination, The Babadook and Wyrmwood featured prominently in the Toronto After Dark Film Festival awards.
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Sophia Turkiewicz's documentary Once My Mother has won a special prize and 10,000 euros ($A14,400) at a major Spanish festival.
Nick Matthews' psychological thriller One Eyed Girl has won the jury prize in the 'Dark Matters' category at the Austin Film Festival in Texas.
Romanian-born director Teodora Ana Mihai's Waiting for August won the best international feature doc prize at the Antenna Documentary Film Festival.
Aaron Wilson's WW2 drama Canopy won the jury grand prize and Craig Monahan's Healing took the audience award at the 16th annual St Tropez Antipodes Film Festival.
The Australian films premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival are getting a fair bit of love from critics, and the occasional brickbat.
Writer-director Julius Avery's debut feature Son of a Gun will have its international premiere in official competition at the BFI London Film Festival next month.
Robert Connolly's family feature Paper Planes has taken out Australia's richest film prize of $100,000 at the seventh annual CinefestOZ Film Festival.